blitzer on cnn whose beard only rivals joels over here, wolf blitzer said we have to mention today is tax day and patriots day and who knows if that had anything to do with it. those on the right who consider themselves tea party patriots or whatever they want to call themselves took offense and thought immediately wolf blitzer was pointing the finger at them. i read the transcript and i saw the clip, and he did nothing of the sort. everybody goes a little crazy, and i think we react very emotionally in times like this. >> but joel, there are emotional responses when people say oh my god. that's an emotional response. this is terrible. but the emotional responses say it is you. david frum did this to conservatives after sandy hook. a lot of people do it after those kinds of tragedies. what is it? why? can't you wait? >> just speaking earn personally, i refuse to speculate about which right wing group is responsible. i think it is because these are senseless things and evil is senseless and unpredictable and it is the pattern that people use to make sense of something they president cay ot